My Diablo 2 discord community. Hit that up :) discord.gg/8GXyu7A The results from 10k Lower Kurast Runs video (Give you an idea about LK farming) th-cam.com/video/vfzUMPtxQNw/w-d-xo.html
Hey, I liked this vid....but now i have a question....does any of this pertain to battlenet? And is LK even worth running on battlenet, specifically sparkly chests. Ive never seen one in LK before...
I recently got into playing pluggy was a big D2 newbie. Watching all these guides trying to see what I can do to optimize my runs/mfing and I just realized that I probably have to godliest LK map you can get. I got it on my 3rd roll or so too. Been extraordinarily lucky 4 Ohms and 1 Sur within less than a 1000 runs - probably about 500. Also found tyraels might :) All that within less than a week in - thanks for the videos - truly bringing a lot of joy and fantastic content that motivates ppl to get (back) into the game and "study" it a bit more too!
Thank you so much for this! I recently got back into Diablo 2 after about fifteen years and had no idea things like this could be done. Within a dozen attempts I got a layout in Hell with the two campfires right by the waypoint and I’m already finding runes far faster than I had been.
04:35 - he makes a mistake here which can confuse you: He says "to skip running the entire LOWER Kurast Dock" When in fact he means "to skip running the entire KURAST DOCKS", i.e. the town.
Did some math out of curiosity using this video and your 10k lower kurast runs video and got this for runs per rune: your runs vs calculated odds based on 63536 patterns and 6 chests per run: pul 17 =588 993 um 8 =1250 1214 mal 10 =1000 728 ist 5 =2000 1560 gul 10 =1000 993 vex 5 =2000 1821 ohm 4 =2500 2185 lo 2 =5000 5461 sur 6 =1667 993 ber 0 =n/a 3641 Real question is what are the odds you missed some runes because those huge chest drops are annoyingly large due to not being able to see all the drops at once and tons of piles of gold and potions. Like how many of those drop patterns for high runes are patterns that have enough items to hide the rune? You got a bit unlucky not finding any Ber runes and on number of Sur runes.
After about an hour of rolling for a decent LK map I got something amazing. Two campfires 1 Campfire is 1 Teleport. The other Campfire is 3 Teleports away. The 1st Campfire top right super chest is a Teleport away from the 2nd top left Campfire. About 16 Teleports per run.
I think a quick note about cheap 200 FCR sorc gear would help. Arachnid mesh can be hard to find, but you can get to 200 fcr with a crafted caster belt. Here's a sample set up. Weapon: Wizard Spike(so much res) / Suicide Branch; 50 FCR Gloves: Magefist / Trangs Gloves; 20 FCR Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi; 30 FCR Helm: 20 FCR circlet Rings: 10 fcr each That's 140 FCR base. Then, with good enough rolls, you can get 60 more with a combination of Spirit Shield, crafted caster amulet and caster belt. Boots are whatever. I like Aldur's boots because the fire res compliments the resistances of spirit nicely, the 40% FRW is a marginal speed boost for farming, and extra life is good because dying will really slow down the farming. Oh, and it is possible to get 200 FCR without spirit, but then Arachnid mesh is necessary. Just in case anyone is playing vanilla single player.
I've been playing a lot of pluggy for the first time. I used this video to find a 10/10 two fire map. The two fires and way point are all beside each other. No Bers yet though.
Thanks a bunch for this video. I have been playing on and off for nearly 20 years (before LOD expansion). Just started doing these runs on p7 a couple of days ago and already have Mal, 2 gul, vex, Lo, and sur. My map is godly, but I dont use a sorc. I have necro with 40 faster run walk. Run time about 1 min. Use pindle to raise skelly and just run it.
thanks for the amazing job man, im brazilian and been in d2lod a long time, did more than 300 runs last week and the best rune droped was a vex, aiming for the 1000s! thanks again, big fan!
I WATCH ADS FOR DBRUNSKI!!! Ive never seen the actual rune patterns before so that is new information for me. No wonder Sur runes drop the most. I use my pally to run LK and i run the docks with vigor. I dont just search for runes, i pick up all charms, druid helms, rings and ammys. LK might be decent on BNET if you do them during baal runs. P8 count. you wont get realm down and you can get the last few waves and baal for XP. Another great video dude
Your lk videos inspired me to spend some time doing them. I have done several hundred runs, was it worth it for me? YES. I found a sur, a gul, vex, ist, mal, um, lots of lems, and a few good set and unique items. I didn't know two campfires can spawn, first thing I will load some new maps until I find a double. I consider myself a pro d2 player. I play hc only, I've played for many years but I honestly have never been the type of player that pays mind to extreme detail, like looking for the perfect hell difficulty map or paying attention to specific stats or rolls, or basing my play time on efficiency ..im the kind of player that just plays if that makes sense. This time around I have stood firm in my personal goal to NOT cheat, it IS single player after all. Last year when I came back to d2 I ended up duping items, runes, copy and pasting game files to cheat. Using atma for much of it. But no more, and it's much better because I got bored quick last time around with cheat runes I made duping via atma. Now my items, atma-banked runes, and runewords are legit! It felt good to beat hell on hardcore legit, i did a lot of mf for the gear needed to do so every milestone i got to. I did normal mephy runs at first, then normal baal runs for gear to start nightmare (vipermagi !!) , then nm mephy where i found my occulus, ready to start hell! Then i spent a long while doing hell andy , countess, and mephy where i found some of my end game gear like shako until i was ready to finish hell.
Farming back then was for chumps. We installed keyloggers on our computer lab at our high school and hacked all their accounts and traded for SoJs and high runes. lol.
If u have the time to pop everything in Lower Kurast on single player or battle.net i would do so most the high runes I get are not even from the super chests but come from stashes corpses etc same goes for charms jewels and occasionally gear that is of some value for example socketed or superior armors and weapons. but as stated in the video you can just focus on the super chests if you want to be way more efficient. As for me ill be making a sorceress this next ladder reset and will be farming lower kurast through too travincal for all the chests bodies stashes etc.
Been doing this using 2 computers and no plugy mod. Both computers use the same diablo install and play in single player mode. I use the "other multiplayer" "TCP / IP" options to mule. 1 computer hosts the mule game the other is the main account. I imagine I could 1/2 and half those roles on the 2 computers. 1 odd upside is the maps are all the same between mule sessions. So after run 1 of the maps, the paths to bosses are pre-mapped in the next sessions. "have to stick to the same mode though". The down side is of course, no use of ladder rune words, the improved stash, and other ladder play perks like bigger bosses. [paragraph below isn't about the "same map between games" mentioned above] Been reluctant to do the plugy gaming. Haven't seen any video posted by it's players extolling "safe files" for use. So I assume it's the risk of using the plugy mods. Certainly I've seen video's on get this here, install it like this. But haven't noted any of the videos saying. "I found safe files here", "I've never had an issue here", or similar quotes to the files being pointed at. Even better still would be a consensus by plugy players on where to get safe files. Any tips of that nature would be welcome from the host.
I'm playing D2R SP (after months playing only in Bnet) and finally reached Lower Kurast in Hell with my sorc. I rolled the map a couple of times and find a good map there. Now the real HR farm begins! xD
Pro tip, if you are running Plugy, get a loot filter, it really makes it easier to spot those runes as it filters out a lot of the useless items dropping from the chests. Dbrunski has a video about loot filters as well so go ahead 😁
I watched the video, but perhaps I just missed it: Why can you not just save and exit after opening the final chest in LK? That would respawn you at the Act 3 docks, right, then you could just waypoint back to LK? Why do you have to take the WP to Act 4 before saving/exiting? Edit: found my answer at 4:35
i know MF doesnt matter for runes, but does it matter for charms? you can get a lot of skillers grand charms on LK super chests.. and i know for a fact that gold find does work on those chests.. so my guess is that MF works for charms too, does anyone know? i feel like i get more charms with MF.. not sure tho
Fantastic video, this taught me a lot :D I have never built a lategame runeword, so Im gonna have to try this to achieve my very first enigma and infinity :D
I watched this video a few times over the last few years to keep me inspired when LK starts dragging. I play Super Casually (this isn't my main game, or even my secondary game) but my PLUGY is finally coming together for me. Guess I just wanted to say thanks, and for any disheartened farmers lurking out there, just remember: Dreams do come true.
Amazing video. By the way, if you`re farming LK on a sorc, use telekinesis to open chests from the middle of the huts and to activate wps, it`s even faster.
Great Video! Even some things i didn´t know like the patterns. Maybe include little tips in there e.G. "get enought keys beforehand" I think those small tipps are what can make the diffrence in a video. great Video overall and I will farm some myself now.
There's one single player specific quirk to LK runs: loot tables seem to be connected to map seed. I noticed armor and weapon racks kept giving me same 4-5 item bases. So I turned on rerolling maps every game until I got white monarch from one armor rack and then I turned rerolling off. And since that I got Monarchs regularly. Quick google confirmed that.
@@The_Aleph_Null I don't think so. If you notice, the chest always drop all blue or all yellow. The way this is rolled is independent of MF, I believe, and uniques can't drop from super chests.
The first time I tried this I did about 1500 runs with nothing better than Gul. Then I accidentally selected nightmare and had to reset my map seed. With the new map I got 2 Sur within a few hours of playing. Maybe the map seed affects which drop patterns are available.
Hey Dbrunski i have 2 questions: 1. is your name short for D(iablo)B(aal)runs-ki ? :D 2. is lower kurast also considered the most efficient way for farming highrunes when i play alone but in battlenet? EDIT: should watch the whole video before i comment something, got it now. But you could join public baalruns and whilst the Host teleports to the throneroom, you could clear LK, right? thank you very much for your good content, keep D2 fresh!
Great info! I'm about 100 runs in! It's fun so far, I have an armor rack that consistently drops pally shields, I've gotten a couple decent high res ones, but mostly 8 res all. Another drops a shako like a quarter of the time, so I got like 300 mf to try and drop Harley! I'd re-roll if it weren't for that one shako rack, but it's a decent map so I'll stick it out for a few days I think.
While I appreciate the video for what it is - useful source of information - what exactly is the point of undergoing this kind of grind in single player game?
In my honest opinion and personal experience: Indeed this is the fasted area to farm high runes, as far as, you play on players 7 or 8, you run very fast on main super chests and sorounding camp fire chests and is important not to loose time by fighting as this seems to lower the drop chances. For me best high runes where droped from surounding smaller chests, tree logs, etc.
I just rolled a pretty sick Lower Kurast map on the 2nd try, 2 campfires very close to the town portal. One is right next to it and the other one is almost as close.
You should talk about weapon and armor rack runs too, you look for exceptional or elite versions of the base you want to farm and farm that map like crazy. Ive never encountered a thresher one but im going to start rerolling racks again since i got my eth cv today, i also think your map seed is relevant to the loot tables for the drops from the superchests too since ive found like 5 Lo's and 1 Sur which seems crazy looking at the pattern drop lists for high runes, unless i just have some absurd luck.
Great video! It was a little tricky to see the maps, I think you had the transparency setting on, and is that a 5 o'clock shadow I see? Growing a beard after all eh?
What version is this based on? And can MF adversely effect drops? I understand probability don't guarantee drop rates, but I've done 600 runs and the highest rune I've come across is Lum. (1.14d, 146%MF). Video was crazy helpful to see though!
Hey buddy! You have inspired me to get back into D2! Just got accidentally banned from bnet because of VPN so I downloaded PlugY to hop back on for now. :) Had a quick question: what do you mean by "roll" a map?
In solo mode, you can change the map by changing difficulty. The game reroll all the maps after you changed difficulty. So just make a game in hell, if it's not what you want go in nightmare or normal and come back in hell to see if the map is better.
Hey Dbrunski! Any chance we could get a bnet LK guide? I'm farming it on players 1, with trav. I need a ber rune! I just found an um from a LK super chest, but I dont know how much luck I will have with finding 2 sur's. Do you know how many vex+ patterns there are in a player 1 game?
It is nice guide for HR in LK, but what are the chances of getting unique/set? Is there a chance of getting something or is it very limited "choice of possible drops?" By watching you guys D2 players it makes me want to get back playing it too actually.
My question maybe stupid, but: If I enter LK on p1, clear area and then set p7, will chest patterns be set to p7 as well? I'm asking because enemies are not instantly boosted by p8 and I don't remember higher rune being dropped from chests than Pul. And I'm something above noob seeing how much do you know about D2.
I HAVE A QUESTION, Why do you play single player v.1.13 and not bnet. I like single player to, but I feel online when you get high level you have other options like PVP or farming etc. Give me a detailed answer please sir.
You will get more drops per run if you clear the map, but less hi runes over time because the super chests are more efficient. Really all depends on what you're going for. Ultimately, the best advice is just to play a lot. That is the #1 way to increase your odds of finding good things
Do u think higher MF increases the chance to get the loot pattern where only rare items drop? I find it to be worthless when only rares drops from the chest, since it cant contain any charms. Not sure if it can still contain any runes, but so far i havent gotten any runes when it only drops rares Edit: Charms do drop aswell when rare (yellow) items drop. It just seems to be super super rare. After about 1k runs total, I got my first charm when rares dropped lol
The only thing missing here are the odds. With 11 Sur patterns out of 65k, that gives us a chance of 1/6k to roll Sur. With 6 chests per game, that should be about one Sur per 1k runs. Having ran LK so many times, could you put that into a time perspective?
A little late response but here you go fam. My 105 FCR sorc with a godlike map roll can do the run in about 25 seconds only going for the superchests. If I pop hollow logs, chests, racks and bodies too, it's around 40. Add 10 seconds for save and exit and relog, and you're looking at roughly 10 or 14 hours per 1k runs.
Do you do the /players 8 trick every time you make a new game on LK or just once and leave it like the trick you showed to switch it? I am farming it atm and using the trick but wanted to ensure I’m not waisting time by doing it each time?
M B I was testing it based on what was dropping from chests, which didn’t seem to be as much as it did when I typed /players 8 each time. Hence asking D, who runs this a lot. Thanks for the info and the snide comment.
Does this apply to series x. Because I been doing this run for months and haven't gotten a hight rune from them. I normally farm them for gems and charms
My Diablo 2 discord community. Hit that up :)
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The results from 10k Lower Kurast Runs video (Give you an idea about LK farming)
th-cam.com/video/vfzUMPtxQNw/w-d-xo.html
Dbrunski do I have to keep typing /players 8 every time I want that difficulty when starting a new lower Kurast run
Jason Gondola nope. Not unless you close all of d2. Not for refreshing the game over and over again.
Does character lvl matter
Dude, when are you gonna read us the Grinch, it's almost Christmas! Dbrunski Storytime, I'm telling you!
Hey, I liked this vid....but now i have a question....does any of this pertain to battlenet? And is LK even worth running on battlenet, specifically sparkly chests. Ive never seen one in LK before...
20 years later and I'm learning and re'learning things about this masterpiece of a game :)
Right? I never knew you could bug Andariel and Duriel, increasing the quality of their drops. Found that out LAST WEEK! Wat.
amen brother
Tho andy and dury bug only limited to sp only,
Necro comment, just started playing again!Love Diablo 2!!!
@@gavyndickerson6203 wait, what?
I recently got into playing pluggy was a big D2 newbie. Watching all these guides trying to see what I can do to optimize my runs/mfing and I just realized that I probably have to godliest LK map you can get. I got it on my 3rd roll or so too.
Been extraordinarily lucky 4 Ohms and 1 Sur within less than a 1000 runs - probably about 500.
Also found tyraels might :)
All that within less than a week in - thanks for the videos - truly bringing a lot of joy and fantastic content that motivates ppl to get (back) into the game and "study" it a bit more too!
This was one of the most useful diablo 2 farming videos i've seen. Thanks for the info✌
Thanks a lot for your videos. I'm playing D2 for about 15 years and I still learn some things here and there, pleasant feeling :D
Thanks for this guide. Yesterday I've found LO rune, and today SUR rune. After "only" LK 225 runs. :)
Thank you so much for this! I recently got back into Diablo 2 after about fifteen years and had no idea things like this could be done. Within a dozen attempts I got a layout in Hell with the two campfires right by the waypoint and I’m already finding runes far faster than I had been.
04:35 - he makes a mistake here which can confuse you:
He says "to skip running the entire LOWER Kurast Dock"
When in fact he means "to skip running the entire KURAST DOCKS", i.e. the town.
Like many here I played this game like 15 years ago intensively. The math behind this game and the efforts = rewards will be timeless
Did some math out of curiosity using this video and your 10k lower kurast runs video and got this for runs per rune:
your runs vs calculated odds based on 63536 patterns and 6 chests per run:
pul 17 =588 993
um 8 =1250 1214
mal 10 =1000 728
ist 5 =2000 1560
gul 10 =1000 993
vex 5 =2000 1821
ohm 4 =2500 2185
lo 2 =5000 5461
sur 6 =1667 993
ber 0 =n/a 3641
Real question is what are the odds you missed some runes because those huge chest drops are annoyingly large due to not being able to see all the drops at once and tons of piles of gold and potions. Like how many of those drop patterns for high runes are patterns that have enough items to hide the rune? You got a bit unlucky not finding any Ber runes and on number of Sur runes.
After about an hour of rolling for a decent LK map I got something amazing.
Two campfires
1 Campfire is 1 Teleport. The other Campfire is 3 Teleports away.
The 1st Campfire top right super chest is a Teleport away from the 2nd top left Campfire.
About 16 Teleports per run.
Dbrunski my man! Followed this guide and got a Ber rune after about 15 runs!! Thanks so much! :D
Thank you! just started ladder and added this to my MF runs, did about 10 runs. got a OHM
Dbrunski125 first guy that pop up on YT and i didnt have to look for any others. Great guides and still apply to D2r
I think a quick note about cheap 200 FCR sorc gear would help. Arachnid mesh can be hard to find, but you can get to 200 fcr with a crafted caster belt. Here's a sample set up.
Weapon: Wizard Spike(so much res) / Suicide Branch; 50 FCR
Gloves: Magefist / Trangs Gloves; 20 FCR
Armor: Skin of the Vipermagi; 30 FCR
Helm: 20 FCR circlet
Rings: 10 fcr each
That's 140 FCR base. Then, with good enough rolls, you can get 60 more with a combination of Spirit Shield, crafted caster amulet and caster belt.
Boots are whatever. I like Aldur's boots because the fire res compliments the resistances of spirit nicely, the 40% FRW is a marginal speed boost for farming, and extra life is good because dying will really slow down the farming.
Oh, and it is possible to get 200 FCR without spirit, but then Arachnid mesh is necessary. Just in case anyone is playing vanilla single player.
Simon Joyce future video bud. It's planned but solid info and tips for those who want to set up 200 fcr build;)
I've been playing a lot of pluggy for the first time. I used this video to find a 10/10 two fire map. The two fires and way point are all beside each other. No Bers yet though.
Thanks a bunch for this video. I have been playing on and off for nearly 20 years (before LOD expansion). Just started doing these runs on p7 a couple of days ago and already have Mal, 2 gul, vex, Lo, and sur.
My map is godly, but I dont use a sorc. I have necro with 40 faster run walk. Run time about 1 min. Use pindle to raise skelly and just run it.
Great polishing on the content man. Looks and sounds extremely professional.
thanks for the amazing job man, im brazilian and been in d2lod a long time, did more than 300 runs last week and the best rune droped was a vex, aiming for the 1000s! thanks again, big fan!
I avoid having any music playing when doing these runs because I'm scared of missing the sound of a rune dropping.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you dbrunski 💜
I WATCH ADS FOR DBRUNSKI!!! Ive never seen the actual rune patterns before so that is new information for me. No wonder Sur runes drop the most. I use my pally to run LK and i run the docks with vigor. I dont just search for runes, i pick up all charms, druid helms, rings and ammys. LK might be decent on BNET if you do them during baal runs. P8 count. you wont get realm down and you can get the last few waves and baal for XP. Another great video dude
Your lk videos inspired me to spend some time doing them. I have done several hundred runs, was it worth it for me? YES. I found a sur, a gul, vex, ist, mal, um, lots of lems, and a few good set and unique items. I didn't know two campfires can spawn, first thing I will load some new maps until I find a double. I consider myself a pro d2 player. I play hc only, I've played for many years but I honestly have never been the type of player that pays mind to extreme detail, like looking for the perfect hell difficulty map or paying attention to specific stats or rolls, or basing my play time on efficiency ..im the kind of player that just plays if that makes sense. This time around I have stood firm in my personal goal to NOT cheat, it IS single player after all. Last year when I came back to d2 I ended up duping items, runes, copy and pasting game files to cheat. Using atma for much of it. But no more, and it's much better because I got bored quick last time around with cheat runes I made duping via atma. Now my items, atma-banked runes, and runewords are legit! It felt good to beat hell on hardcore legit, i did a lot of mf for the gear needed to do so every milestone i got to. I did normal mephy runs at first, then normal baal runs for gear to start nightmare (vipermagi !!) , then nm mephy where i found my occulus, ready to start hell! Then i spent a long while doing hell andy , countess, and mephy where i found some of my end game gear like shako until i was ready to finish hell.
wtffff wish i had known these in high school
Farming back then was for chumps. We installed keyloggers on our computer lab at our high school and hacked all their accounts and traded for SoJs and high runes. lol.
If u have the time to pop everything in Lower Kurast on single player or battle.net i would do so most the high runes I get are not even from the super chests but come from stashes corpses etc same goes for charms jewels and occasionally gear that is of some value for example socketed or superior armors and weapons. but as stated in the video you can just focus on the super chests if you want to be way more efficient. As for me ill be making a sorceress this next ladder reset and will be farming lower kurast through too travincal for all the chests bodies stashes etc.
Such a detailed guide! Will reference back to this vid a lot. 👍
Been doing this using 2 computers and no plugy mod. Both computers use the same diablo install and play in single player mode. I use the "other multiplayer" "TCP / IP" options to mule. 1 computer hosts the mule game the other is the main account. I imagine I could 1/2 and half those roles on the 2 computers.
1 odd upside is the maps are all the same between mule sessions. So after run 1 of the maps, the paths to bosses are pre-mapped in the next sessions. "have to stick to the same mode though". The down side is of course, no use of ladder rune words, the improved stash, and other ladder play perks like bigger bosses.
[paragraph below isn't about the "same map between games" mentioned above]
Been reluctant to do the plugy gaming. Haven't seen any video posted by it's players extolling "safe files" for use. So I assume it's the risk of using the plugy mods. Certainly I've seen video's on get this here, install it like this. But haven't noted any of the videos saying. "I found safe files here", "I've never had an issue here", or similar quotes to the files being pointed at. Even better still would be a consensus by plugy players on where to get safe files. Any tips of that nature would be welcome from the host.
I'm playing D2R SP (after months playing only in Bnet) and finally reached Lower Kurast in Hell with my sorc. I rolled the map a couple of times and find a good map there. Now the real HR farm begins! xD
Pro tip, if you are running Plugy, get a loot filter, it really makes it easier to spot those runes as it filters out a lot of the useless items dropping from the chests. Dbrunski has a video about loot filters as well so go ahead 😁
thank you! i just strated MFing and wanted to farm LK efficiantly and this helped me really much!
I watched the video, but perhaps I just missed it: Why can you not just save and exit after opening the final chest in LK? That would respawn you at the Act 3 docks, right, then you could just waypoint back to LK? Why do you have to take the WP to Act 4 before saving/exiting?
Edit: found my answer at 4:35
i know MF doesnt matter for runes, but does it matter for charms? you can get a lot of skillers grand charms on LK super chests.. and i know for a fact that gold find does work on those chests.. so my guess is that MF works for charms too, does anyone know? i feel like i get more charms with MF.. not sure tho
My advice for LK on bnet: open EVERYTHING there in full games, not just the super chests. There is probably like 100 containers in the whole area.
Yep. I found a shako in a basket in LK on bnet.
When you spend a week finding high runes for infinity, but spend a month looking for the base.
@Neo Sannyasin Thats annoying for real :)
@Neo Sannyasin nearly dropped my CTA in a game with wrong password, was fun xD
Great video as always, but please don't make a habit of the blurring. It hurt my eyes watching.
Awesome video, perfectly clear and very much appreciated👏👏👏
Glad it was helpful!
My current map is even better than the 10/10. Just got my first Sur rune on my grind for the first enigma. keep up the good work dbrunski.
Fantastic video, this taught me a lot :D I have never built a lategame runeword, so Im gonna have to try this to achieve my very first enigma and infinity :D
I watched this video a few times over the last few years to keep me inspired when LK starts dragging. I play Super Casually (this isn't my main game, or even my secondary game) but my PLUGY is finally coming together for me. Guess I just wanted to say thanks, and for any disheartened farmers lurking out there, just remember: Dreams do come true.
DBRUNSKI should teach d2 at a university. THE PROFESSOR.
Awesome video and perfect timing! Working my way through hell now :)
To avoid realm down you could probably include a Countess run (and maybe Eldritch too,) seems like it’d be efficient to farm runes/stuff.
Amazing video.
By the way, if you`re farming LK on a sorc, use telekinesis to open chests from the middle of the huts and to activate wps, it`s even faster.
Great Video! Even some things i didn´t know like the patterns. Maybe include little tips in there e.G. "get enought keys beforehand" I think those small tipps are what can make the diffrence in a video. great Video overall and I will farm some myself now.
I reloaded d2 because of your videos. I’m doing LK Runs found my first Ber yesterday and my second one today lol and I’ve yet to find an Um rune yet
This was very helpful! Thank you!
There's one single player specific quirk to LK runs: loot tables seem to be connected to map seed. I noticed armor and weapon racks kept giving me same 4-5 item bases. So I turned on rerolling maps every game until I got white monarch from one armor rack and then I turned rerolling off. And since that I got Monarchs regularly. Quick google confirmed that.
Question, if MF doesn't affect the rune drops at all, then wouldn't it be better to minimize MF so chests don't frop a bizillion trillion items?
Oh, aight. MFing just improves the quality of items not the amount, my bad. Thanks bud
@@The_Aleph_Null I don't think so. If you notice, the chest always drop all blue or all yellow. The way this is rolled is independent of MF, I believe, and uniques can't drop from super chests.
The first time I tried this I did about 1500 runs with nothing better than Gul. Then I accidentally selected nightmare and had to reset my map seed. With the new map I got 2 Sur within a few hours of playing. Maybe the map seed affects which drop patterns are available.
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Hey Dbrunski i have 2 questions:
1. is your name short for D(iablo)B(aal)runs-ki ? :D
2. is lower kurast also considered the most efficient way for farming highrunes when i play alone but in battlenet?
EDIT: should watch the whole video before i comment something, got it now.
But you could join public baalruns and whilst the Host teleports to the throneroom, you could clear LK, right?
thank you very much for your good content, keep D2 fresh!
I never knew that you can "change the difficulty" on *offline singleplayer mode.*
Thank so much for posting.
Great info! I'm about 100 runs in! It's fun so far, I have an armor rack that consistently drops pally shields, I've gotten a couple decent high res ones, but mostly 8 res all. Another drops a shako like a quarter of the time, so I got like 300 mf to try and drop Harley! I'd re-roll if it weren't for that one shako rack, but it's a decent map so I'll stick it out for a few days I think.
While I appreciate the video for what it is - useful source of information - what exactly is the point of undergoing this kind of grind in single player game?
In my honest opinion and personal experience: Indeed this is the fasted area to farm high runes, as far as, you play on players 7 or 8, you run very fast on main super chests and sorounding camp fire chests and is important not to loose time by fighting as this seems to lower the drop chances. For me best high runes where droped from surounding smaller chests, tree logs, etc.
I just rolled a pretty sick Lower Kurast map on the 2nd try, 2 campfires very close to the town portal. One is right next to it and the other one is almost as close.
Very well done. Thanks!
Super helpful video, thank you for this.
is this applicable to D2R as well.
of course, its the same game.
I really enjoy your video's, they are so useful
You should talk about weapon and armor rack runs too, you look for exceptional or elite versions of the base you want to farm and farm that map like crazy. Ive never encountered a thresher one but im going to start rerolling racks again since i got my eth cv today, i also think your map seed is relevant to the loot tables for the drops from the superchests too since ive found like 5 Lo's and 1 Sur which seems crazy looking at the pattern drop lists for high runes, unless i just have some absurd luck.
I have both camp fires right next to eatch other with the way point 10 sec away while running
Dubrunski you are fucking legend. Keep a good job with D2 videos. Cheers
Great video! It was a little tricky to see the maps, I think you had the transparency setting on, and is that a 5 o'clock shadow I see? Growing a beard after all eh?
The way you link relevant vidoes from other videos, is Masterfly done. :-D
Thanks for the info! So what would be the best place to look for runes at bnet? Cows maybe?
What version is this based on? And can MF adversely effect drops? I understand probability don't guarantee drop rates, but I've done 600 runs and the highest rune I've come across is Lum. (1.14d, 146%MF). Video was crazy helpful to see though!
Should note. Players 7.
just found this while researching d2r, link to your twitch?
Love it!! Just found Ohm rune at players 8 =)) dont have nice gear yet, but im getting better and better, keep going with ur vids
Second Ohm Today omg lol !! =) i was thinking about cta, but im not sure now lol
malawiglenn - you answered it yourself, it doesn't matter if it's 7 or 8 players.
Great video as always. TKS!
Hey buddy! You have inspired me to get back into D2! Just got accidentally banned from bnet because of VPN so I downloaded PlugY to hop back on for now. :) Had a quick question: what do you mean by "roll" a map?
In solo mode, you can change the map by changing difficulty. The game reroll all the maps after you changed difficulty. So just make a game in hell, if it's not what you want go in nightmare or normal and come back in hell to see if the map is better.
Hello. Does the rune pattern applies in each character or for the account as a whole when in SP?
My LK map is a definite 10/10. Just got my second ber rune.
quirky shadows, or DB left his razor at home today :P great vid DB! I'm still loving these runs
Masterful video. everything explained perfectly. thank you
What do the 5/6 difficulty and 7/8 difficulty mean? What do the numbers mean
I didn't understand this either, please someone explain
@@juanestebantorre6348 hey so apparently in single played if you type /players 5 then it makes the difficulty like there is 5 players in it
Thanks so much! Love your videos!!!
managed to get 1 Ohm and 1 Sur rune in 2 months using a summonmancer. farming LK on my free time :)
Could you show an example of a budget fcr sorc setup for teleporting?
Hey Dbrunski! Any chance we could get a bnet LK guide? I'm farming it on players 1, with trav. I need a ber rune! I just found an um from a LK super chest, but I dont know how much luck I will have with finding 2 sur's. Do you know how many vex+ patterns there are in a player 1 game?
Love the Vids....
So useful thank you!
With long load times in d2r, I wonder if just leaving game (in act 3) is quicker now as long as you have high runwalk?
i'd rate the 10/10 map 9/10. Both huts are as close to the wp as they can be, but they are on the opposite sides.
Thanks for the vid db! I might go back to lk soon I need some skiller gcs :)
It is nice guide for HR in LK, but what are the chances of getting unique/set? Is there a chance of getting something or is it very limited "choice of possible drops?" By watching you guys D2 players it makes me want to get back playing it too actually.
the Superchests themselves can not drop unique items, only magic or rare, the other popables and monsters can
How rare are the maps with 2 campfires on it, I can only find the maps with one campfire?
Well I tried like 5 6 times and I got double camp thing
Good video. Very helpful, liked and shared!
My question maybe stupid, but:
If I enter LK on p1, clear area and then set p7, will chest patterns be set to p7 as well? I'm asking because enemies are not instantly boosted by p8 and I don't remember higher rune being dropped from chests than Pul. And I'm something above noob seeing how much do you know about D2.
Its impossible to do this on ladder sadly because you cant change the player count
is it normal to do almost 500 runs and only get a mal?? and a bunch of low runes?
Glad I saw this video
I HAVE A QUESTION, Why do you play single player v.1.13 and not bnet. I like single player to, but I feel online when you get high level you have other options like PVP or farming etc.
Give me a detailed answer please sir.
It's a little late but a lot of "purists" play single player just for the challenge of finding everything themselves.
This is quite different from console players for d2r... is LK still suggested for offline solo play for playstation?
Recently I found an SOJ and Ohm from LK but not the super cheats, just random skeletons etc. I now find it extremely hard not to clear the map...!
You will get more drops per run if you clear the map, but less hi runes over time because the super chests are more efficient. Really all depends on what you're going for. Ultimately, the best advice is just to play a lot. That is the #1 way to increase your odds of finding good things
Do u think higher MF increases the chance to get the loot pattern where only rare items drop? I find it to be worthless when only rares drops from the chest, since it cant contain any charms. Not sure if it can still contain any runes, but so far i havent gotten any runes when it only drops rares
Edit: Charms do drop aswell when rare (yellow) items drop. It just seems to be super super rare. After about 1k runs total, I got my first charm when rares dropped lol
" Oh Hi runes!"
The only thing missing here are the odds. With 11 Sur patterns out of 65k, that gives us a chance of 1/6k to roll Sur. With 6 chests per game, that should be about one Sur per 1k runs. Having ran LK so many times, could you put that into a time perspective?
A little late response but here you go fam. My 105 FCR sorc with a godlike map roll can do the run in about 25 seconds only going for the superchests. If I pop hollow logs, chests, racks and bodies too, it's around 40. Add 10 seconds for save and exit and relog, and you're looking at roughly 10 or 14 hours per 1k runs.
But if you play offline you can’t switch character so all your cool stuff can’t be used by other classes.
Do you do the /players 8 trick every time you make a new game on LK or just once and leave it like the trick you showed to switch it? I am farming it atm and using the trick but wanted to ensure I’m not waisting time by doing it each time?
M B I was testing it based on what was dropping from chests, which didn’t seem to be as much as it did when I typed /players 8 each time. Hence asking D, who runs this a lot. Thanks for the info and the snide comment.
Does this apply to series x. Because I been doing this run for months and haven't gotten a hight rune from them. I normally farm them for gems and charms